Landon in The New Monthly 1837/Three Extracts from the Diary of a Week
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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 49, Pages 478-481
THREE EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY OF A WEEK.
BY L. E. L.
A record of the inward world, whose facts
Are thoughts—and feelings—fears, and hopes, and dreams.
There are some days that might outmeasure years—
Days that obliterate the past, and make
The future of the colour which they cast.
A day may be a destiny; for life
Lives in but little—but that little teems
With some one chance, the balance of all time:
A look—a word—and we are wholly changed.
We marvel at ourselves—we would deny
That which is working in the hidden soul;
But the heart knows and trembles at the truth:
On such these records linger.